Re: runumbering (was: Re: IPv6: Past mistakes repeated?)

[Keith Moore]

> So what I am suggesting is that it seems that there is evidence that one
> can do an "association" protocol that is relatively lightweight in terms
> of machinery, packets, packet headers, and end-node state if one leaves
> the heavy lifting of reliability to the underlying TCP protocol.

the on-the-wire protocol overhead is not that great.  the computational
overhead to the host and application, and the resulting loss in maximum
bandwidth, are fairly expensive.

basically it's a lot more efficient to do some variant of mobile IP.

Keith